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HCAD Formalizes Career and Professional Development Support for Architecture Students

Monday, September 22nd, 2025
Beginning this semester, Mark Bess, undergraduate architecture coordinator and principal at Blackberry Studios, and Tom Ogorzalek, senior lecturer and partner at Continuum Design, LLC, will formally expand the career and professional development guidance they have long provided to upper-level archit...

FIFA Fan Zones: NJIT Architecture Students Reimagine Public Spaces for World Cup

Monday, September 15th, 2025
When the FIFA World Cup kicks off next summer, all eyes will be on the 16 host cities across North America — especially East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the tournament’s final will be played at the 80,000-seat MetLife Stadium. But for Tatiana Florexil ’25, a recent graduate from New Jersey Institu...

Center for Community Systems and TAB Welcome New Director

Friday, September 5th, 2025
Jessica Miller is the executive director at the Center for Community Systems at the Hillier College of Architecture and Design. She is also the executive director of the Environment Protection Agency’s Technical Assistance to Brownfield Communities Program in Regions 2 and 4 (NJIT TAB). Miller ...

NJIT Design Professor Honored with Distinguished Educator Award

Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
Glenn Goldman, director emeritus and professor of architecture and design at NJIT’s Hillier College of Architecture and Design, earned the prestigious 2025 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award, recognizing his outstanding contributions to teaching computer graphics and interactive techniques. G...

Mat Schwartz Elected Chair of the School of Art + Design at NJIT's Hillier College

Friday, August 1st, 2025
Mat Schwartz has been elected chair of the School of Art + Design at Hillier College effective July 1, 2025. Schwartz is an exemplar of the kind of design professional that he and fellow faculty train at Hillier College: interdisciplinary, creative and technically proficient. Schwartz’s work reflect...

From Sketch to Splash: NJIT and Newark Collaborate on Student-Built Pool Cabanas

Monday, June 23rd, 2025
The Hillier College of Architecture and Design, through a public-private partnership formed between NJIT, the city of Newark and the logistics real estate company Prologis, gave second-year architecture students the opportunity to complete a studio design-build of custom cabanas for Newark’s public ...

NJIT Named Best in New Jersey for Game Design

Thursday, May 29th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology has been selected as one of the best schools with game design programs in the U.S., according to industry website Animation Career Review.  NJIT’s game design program ranks No. 1 in New Jersey and top-25 in the East Coast. Animation Career Review’s ranking fol...

Meaning in the Making: Industrial Designer Gabriel Rapoport on Designing a More Beautiful World

Monday, May 19th, 2025
Gabriel Rapoport’s journey into industrial design began long before he knew the field had a name. From a young age, he was curious about how everyday objects were designed, constructed and refined to improve life.  That childhood fascination evolved into a drive to become one of the creators sh...

Acewin Tam's Architectural Vision: Bridging Design, Community and Social Change

Monday, April 28th, 2025
As Acewin Tam prepares to cross the graduation stage at NJIT, she reflects not just on the culmination of five years of rigorous study, but on a deeply personal journey of growth, discovery and purpose. An architecture student whose work straddles the line between the technical and the poetic, Tam h...

Two Disciplines, One Vision: Imani Ihmaid's Story at NJIT

Friday, April 25th, 2025
Imani Ihmaid’s journey as an interior design student at NJIT is rooted in a passion for design that began in high school. After taking a drafting class and completing an internship with RH Interiors, the Paterson, New Jersey native discovered a love for interior design that solidified her decision t...